The death of a neighborhood bodega cat named Kit Kat has rocked San Francisco’s Mission District, According to The New York Times,
After Kit Kat was crushed by a Waymo robotaxi on the evening of October 27, locals built a shrine in her memory. The area has also been decorated with competing signs, some criticizing Waymo, others calling attention to the many deaths caused by human drivers.
Jackie Fielder, who represents the Mission District on the SF Board of Supervisors, Raised Kit Kat Making the case for a proposed city resolution that calls on the state to allow local voters to decide whether driverless cars can operate in their neighborhoods.
“A human driver can be held accountable, he can get out, say sorry, if it’s a hit-and-run the police can track him down,” Fielder told the Times. “Here, there is no one to hold accountable.”
Waymo, whose co-CEO is most recently Talked about the importance of security at Disruptdescribed the incident as a cat “running under our vehicle as it was driving away.” The company said it “expresses our deepest condolences to the cat’s owner and the community who knew and loved him.”
